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- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. Unfortunately, open-source has proven time and time again to be unsustainable and burn maintainers out
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good reason for people to take the money they would have spent buying a proprietary solution and instead donate that money to an open source project.
- Comment on Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices 4 weeks ago:
but completely backwards in thinking that an undocumented bluetooth backdoor is worse than the worst vulnerability found since the invention of the internet
Right HeartBleed was way worse than this, not on the same level. I wasn’t claiming the opposite.
I was responding to the comment that appeared to suggest they were on the same level.
- Comment on Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices 4 weeks ago:
No way they’re on the same level. Heartbleed allowed for remote memory reads. This requires you to have access to change the firmware.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 5 weeks ago:
In this context, SKU refers to a variant of this product
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I use Jellyfin for music mostly and it struggles with metadata. For example, if a song has two artists on it and I edit to correct it, it won’t update correctly and I’ll edit up with the artist “Artist A; Artist B”.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 1 month ago:
Have you tried a packet capture with Wireshark or tcpdump to see what it’s doing? It might give better clues than a general error message.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 1 month ago:
I’m working on adding ActivityPub to my Hugo blog right now. I support RSS, but I figured AP support means that you can get it into your Mastodon feed or even Lemmy feed making it easy to follow. Additionally, commenting (assuming it doesn’t get taken over by spammers.)
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 2 months ago:
No, the cable isn’t going to implement the protocol. You need endpoints that are able to talk that protocol. That might be done with a firmware update or require new hardware.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 5 months ago:
I’m not an HVAC technician so I wouldn’t know exactly, but I think there’s two things to consider: static pressure and duty cycle. Static pressure is the fan working hard to spin which causes wear on bearings. Duty cycle is how long the machine runs. If your duty cycle is too low then the machine is turning on and off quickly which is bad.
You could look at the size of the unit and there’s some rules of thumb that translate size, climate, and square footage and there are online calculators you can use. I think the only way to know for sure is to measure the pressure drop across the intake and outflow and see what the fan motor is rated for.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 5 months ago:
Depends on the unit and whether it was over sized or under sized for the space, but restricting 60℅ air flow is a lot.
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- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 5 months ago:
Yeah there’s a few reasons why the offer that wins the buy box (the term for which merchants offer is shown to the customer prominently) and is complex, but I wouldn’t consider it particularly sinister or designed to mislead. If one person has prime and the other doesn’t, it might weight more towards a prime offer which may be more expensive, a price from a merchant may have changed, or gone out of stock.
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 5 months ago:
I have my doubts that a company would be able to just abandon a live and operational nuclear power plant. I’m no nuclear or power engineer, but I am familiar with data center power consumption. There are companies in the region that would absolutely build more data centers, but are power constrained from the utility companies in the area, that are not just for AI, but for general compute. Even then, it’s low carbon production energy. If you have a ton of excess power, just start forcing high carbon production facilities in the area to close and now you’ve greened the grid.
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 5 months ago:
While I’m not a fan of the loan, I actually think that’s its a good thing because if Microsoft can break through some of the excessive red tape on nuclear plants then they’ll bring this online and hopefully prove that nuclear power can be safe and a good source of large amounts of power, when the huge demand for AI dies down, then maybe they’ll keep the plant around and provide power to the grid.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 5 months ago:
Kind of but it’s not fair to put it all on the manager. Multiple decided to hire the person. Somebody else approved that code review. People approved the technical design. Why didn’t the tech lead raise concerns with the manager about someone’s underperformance, etc. it’s unfair to just put all blame on the manager.
The idea of extreme ownership is about not saying “not my problem I won’t do anything” or blaming your reports. It’s about saying I can and should do anything and everything in my ability to fix problems.